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- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
employment rolls in the form of reduced enforcement? To test his theory, Heese gathered 30 years of data on publicly traded companies, classifying them by "employment intensity"—that is, the number of a firm's employees relative... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
violations to auditors of the same gender—thinking they may be more likely to be believed and less likely to be punished. Significantly, mixed-gender teams did no better than all-female teams in uncovering violations, meaning perhaps the male View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- July 1993 (Revised December 2003)
- Case
Sears Auto Centers (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Michael Santoro
The CEO of Sears must decide how to respond to allegations that the company's auto repair division has been misleading consumers and charging them for unnecessary repairs. View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Organizational Culture; Compensation and Benefits; Management Teams; Employees; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Improvement; Auto Industry
Paine, Lynn S., and Michael Santoro. "Sears Auto Centers (A)." Harvard Business School Case 394-009, July 1993. (Revised December 2003.)
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
framing alters perceptions of (in)completeness, making intermediate progress seem less complete. In turn, these feelings of incompleteness motivate people to persist until the pseudo-set has been fulfilled. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
that restructuring addresses is very large—in the billions of dollars possibly. My research at companies suggests there are three primary motivations for restructuring. The first is the need to address poor financial performance. Here,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
stronger. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-051.pdf Quality Management and Job Quality: How the ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management Systems Affects Employees and Employers (revised) Authors:David I. Levine and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
rules, and agreements to the governance process. Discusses the roles of three structures in family business governance: the top management team, the family employee council, and the board of directors. Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract I evaluate the effect of loyalty on individuals' portfolio choice using a unique dataset of retirement contributions. I exploit the statutory difference that in 401(k) plans stand alone employees... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
guide. Clear articulation of values and principles helps employees choose among alternatives in a consistent manner. "One Cemex, we are only one Cemex," CEO Lorenzo Zambrano declared to me. The Mexican company is one of the... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
Case 609-080 At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators—bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao—are motivated to improve line productivity through... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
productive workers during Kelleher's tenure were motivated by a vibrant working atmosphere, good wages, profit sharing, and the knowledge that no employees had ever been laid off at the company. This feeling... View Details
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
(like employee satisfaction). Those are fine for understanding individual perceptions, but aren’t so good at quantifying real behavioral responses and organizational performance outcomes from open offices. The gap between perceptions and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
objective performance but incorporating managerial discretion in the selection of winners. In principle, such plans could motivate employees to perform both at a high level, based on objective criteria, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
2002, according to UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS Recognizing The Threat What should responsible organizations do to counter the epidemic for their employees and their business? For a start, they must pool knowledge... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?
it even takes more effort to sign up for the program,” says Zlatev. In fact, in a follow-up study, not yet published, he and Kristal found evidence that the person who chose to use the commitment strategy was more intrinsically motivated... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
an array of implications that can be tested with our data. Our contribution is twofold. We disentangle the role of risk aversion and talent in determining how firms select and motivate managers. In particular, risk-averse managers are... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
of organizational alignment—the primary focus of this book—the enterprise must also align its employees and management processes with the strategy. Having aligned and integrated strategies at all organizational units yields little if... View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
country and firm-level data. Using data for 58 countries, we show that after the adoption of MCSR laws and regulations, the social responsibility of business leaders increases and both sustainable development and employee training become... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
to and even surpass its established success. In parallel, Ilkbahar also needed to make sure that employee motivation at HBC’s original Fethiye location did not drop and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
five different dimensions of difference from a global perspective: gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, and age. However, more work still needed to be done to engage employees around the world in the company's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne